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Northern mines could provide most of the EU’s strategic metals

A new report from the Nordic Council of Ministers says Greenland and Arctic Europe holds almost all the minerals the bloc has deemed critical.

By Kevin McGwin October 19, 2021
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Greenland, northern Scandinavia and parts of Iceland — together with the wider Nordic region — are a potential source of nearly all the metals the European Union has identified as crucial to the bloc’s development of a low-carbon economy, a review published by the Nordic Council of Ministers has found.

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